Show SUR SURPRISE RISE IN LONDON British For n Office Expected a Different Result London August 29 p m The announcement that the Portsmouth conference had concluded peace was received in London just tn in time for brief bulletins to be In the at af papers The As AssocIated Press conYe conveyed ed the first information to the office where Sir Eric Barring Barrington ton representing Foreign Secretary Lansdowne expressed profound aston astoniShment astonishment and said this wa was the first In the government had received Sir Erics first expression ater after he bd had been handed the report ot of the As Associated Pres Pren was wasI I It Is simply extraordinary The foreign office according to Sir Eric had no Idea that Japa Japan intended to recede on al all points The Associated Pres Press understandS how however ver that It was wel well known In circles here that Japan wa was so anxious to make a good on th the world that she was ready to make extraordinary concessions Sir Eric Barrington aso also Informed the Associated Pres Press that the anese treaty was released by the an announcement announcement S of the decision ot of the Portsmouth conference hut that the terms would not be given out tm till the government had been officIally notified or of the resul result of th tha peace conference The Associated Pres Press aP also conveyed tIme the first information to Lord Lane downe who was at his count country seat In iii Ireland and to the other cabinet mm I who are absent In differ dUIer nt t parts I of the United Kingdom and on the continent |